This article talks about new textbooks where the infidel is to be avoided and the US is made the enemy. These are being sent out by the Saudis to schools here in the US. Does anyone remember the Saudi commercial, “We are your friends.”? If you do, you must be wondering, like I am, who [...]
Read the whole entryAnother scandal in Iraq. Drinking, carousing, female soldiers wrestling in their skivvies. Everyone is “appalled.” And one woman, only one soldier and a woman, has been punished for the revelry. I’m not an ardent feminist. But if the guys can take their shirts off, then so can the women. And that a woman was busted [...]
Read the whole entry“Gen 9:4-6 4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. 6 “Whoever sheds [...]
Read the whole entrySays that inhibitors for risky behavior are not fully developed until age 25. That’s an interesting age, much older than we’ve always set our laws (15 to get married in Nevada and South Carolina and 21 to drink in most states). Related personal musings: When are you grown up? When are you a grown up?
Read the whole entryCold Fury has a long discourse on Galileo, including his recanting and his un-recanting, and his sentence and his beliefs and Kepler, Ptolemy, Copernicus and Brahe.
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